Barbara Cassin

Barbara Cassin (French: [kas]; born October 24, 1947)

is a French philologist and philosopher, born in 1947 in
Boulogne-Billancourt. A past Director at Jacques Derrida's Collge international de philosophie and director of
research (senior research chair) at the CNRS.[1] In 2006
she succeeded Jonathan Barnes to the directorship of the
leading centre of excellence in Ancient philosophy, Centre Leon-Robin, at the Sorbonne. Her work centers on
Sophism and rhetoric, and their relation to philosophy.
In a footnote in 2007s Logic of Worlds, Alain Badiou
portrays her work as a synthesis of Heideggerian thought
with the linguistic turn. For many years she co-directed
with Alain Badiou the series L'Ordre Philosophique, at
Le Seuil publishers. She is the author of L'Eet Sophistique (1995) and the editor of Vocabulaire Europen
des Philosophies, ( 2004) an international collective work
of philosophers sponsored by the European Union. She
has also written Google-moi. La Deuxime Mission de
l'Amrique (2007),[2] In September 2012 a Cerisy symposium about her works will take place, with contributions
by Xavier North, tienne Balibar, Fernando Santoro,
Michel Deguy, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, PhilippeJoseph Salazar, Alain Badiou.[3]

References

[1] http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/Locales/Metropole_
Lilloise/actualite/Secteur_Metropole_Lilloise/2008/11/
15/article_citephilo.shtml
[2] http://bernardg.com/node/51 A book which she discussed
in an interview in English on the Cultural Technologies
podcast.
[3] Program:http://www.ccic-cerisy.asso.fr/cassin12.html

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